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HEATH — Residents can prepare for St. Patrick’s Day with “A Celtic Celebration” at the Heath Free Public Library, located at 18 Jacobs Road, on Saturday, March 1, at 3 p.m.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — Residents have begun reviewing the various models for possible restructuring of the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional school districts, and are making it clear they want to see all potential impacts and benefits explored.

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — Commemorating the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine, a handful of activists with Massachusetts Peace Action stood outside U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern’s Northampton office on Monday afternoon to demand peace negotiations. This standout mirrored another held by the organization at the same time in Boston.

By CHRIS LARABEE

CONWAY — As the town’s streetlight study continues, residents and officials gathered at Town Hall this week to shed some light on the topic.

LEEDS — None of the more than 1,000 employees dismissed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs last week work at the VA Central Western Massachusetts Health Care System that serves veterans, according to Sarah Robinson, spokesperson for the Leeds-based medical center.

By SHERYL HUNTER

California-based blues and rock musician Tommy Castro said that his new album, “Closer to the Bone,” is the first real blues album he’s made. Considering that the guitarist, singer, and songwriter has released 16 albums in his award-winning four-decade career, this comes as somewhat of a surprise.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

COLRAIN — The Selectboard has approved reducing the broadband budget by $26,756 for fiscal year 2026, a change that, if approved by Annual Town Meeting voters, will lower the monthly cost for broadband users by $5.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — The school committees of the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional school districts are preparing to finalize the numbers for the fiscal year 2026 budget after they hear feedback from the public in the next two weeks.

By THE REV. LINDA M. RHINEHART NEAS

Composer Dan Schutte wrote, “I will break their hearts of stone, give them hearts for love alone.”

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

CHARLEMONT — After a stellar regular season, the Mohawk Trail alpine ski team got to shine during the PVIAC Individual Championships on Tuesday at Berkshire East. 

By GARRETT COTE

WOODFORD, Vt. — The conditions couldn’t have been better at the 2025 MIAA Nordic Ski Championships Tuesday afternoon, and with the amount of waxing Mohawk Trail head coach Mark Pollard did the night before, his Warriors boys and girls teams could feel a difference immediately as they blazed through the trails at Prospect Mountain.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Annoyed about all the snow that has dumped down on the Pioneer Valley this winter? The Mohawk Trail Nordic ski team certainly isn’t. 

High Honors: Autumn Belanger, Katelyn Bozek, Sallie Flynn, Augustus Foote, Elliot Franetovich, Miley Frey, Maddan Garcia, Elizabeth Gilmore, Raelyn Hildreth, Grayson Johnson, Annabelle Koshinsky, Samantha Krumm-Poulin, Jared Lanoue, Everett Long, Tamsin Macmillan, Cooper Morey, Adalyn Nevins, Addison Putman, Andrew Redeker, Kaden Shearer, Zoey-Mae Shearer, Adaline Sullivan, Shae Swindell, Rheia Thomasson, Alaina Toothaker, Gunnar Triggs, Sadie Wilcox and Liam Zarotny.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

CHARLEMONT — With cold weather and a fair amount of snowfall, it has been “a good old-fashioned New England winter” at Berkshire East Mountain Resort, in the words of Jon Schaefer.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

CHARLEMONT — More than 85 skiers gathered at Berkshire East Mountain Resort on Thursday, enjoying a snowy day and camaraderie while raising more than $40,000 for United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region.

By THE REV. RANDY CALVO

This coming Wednesday is Abraham Lincoln’s birth anniversary. In his Second Inaugural Address, as the President of a divided Union, he realized that people of faith were praying to the same God for different outcomes. Lincoln was humble enough to dare not equate God’s will with that of either side, saying, “The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.”

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Appeals Court has upheld a 2022 Hampshire County Superior Court ruling that found former Police Chief Robert Haigh Jr. and the Police Department racially discriminated against former Officer Patrick Buchanan.

CASTLETON, Vt. — Colrain resident Sarah Herzig was named to the president’s list at Castleton University for the fall semester.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — It’s become almost normal at this point. In recent memory, any time the UMass men’s basketball team starts to play well and garners attention from the fan base, it seemingly finds a way to let them down. Such was the case on Tuesday night in front of a season-high 3,745 fans at Mullins Center as the Minutemen fell 73-71 to Saint Louis with third place in the Atlantic 10 on the line.